Call me a nerd (seriously… I dare you) but I always liked going back to school at the end of the summer. There are many reasons for this. A.) I’m very social. School is a very social place. I loved seeing my friends everyday. B.) Three months of summer was enough for me. I love summer, sure, but I get bored. I thrive from being busy. C.) I genuinely like to learn. D.) New clothes!

This is the first back to school season of my life that I am not going back to school. (Well, last year actually was the first, but I was still enrolled in a class for my internship… and my internship was kind of like school… except I got paid.) Either way, this is the first time in my life (since I was 5 anyway) that the end of summer has come, but nothing in my life is changing. It is weird. And the fact that I am in Santa Barbara and it is summer year around makes it even more weird. I’m used to the weather getting chillier in September… changing leaves… hoodies…. football games. But nope, not here. It is still 75 degrees and sunny. Every. Single. Freaking. Day.

I’m not complaining. Honestly, I’m not. I’m just trying to express how weird it seems to me.

Lets rewind back to the part where I said that I like to learn. I miss learning. Not that I’m not learning anything from everyday life. But going to classes, listening to lectures, understanding homework… you hate it when you have to do it, but miss it when you don’t. Or at least I do. In order to make up for this lack of learning, I am trying to study for the GRE as much as possible. It is working. I am learning a lot. I just have one big issue. One stupid, behemoth issue that makes it that much more complicated to study.

I am completely and utterly addicted to the Internet.

There I said it. It’s officially out in the open. Most of you are bloggers, so I’m sure you understand to an extent. But it is almost as if I am absorbing some weird, addictive, brain-numbing substance through my fingertips… or maybe from the airwaves coming directly from my wireless router. I don’t know exactly what it is. Except it’s like nicotine. Maybe stronger. I crave it all day. And when I am online, I am completely incapable of getting anything else done. I honestly cannot be in the same room with my computer if I want to accomplish something. I am online like it is my job. (And it’s not.) It’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I do before I go to bed.

So back to the studying thing. If I want to get any studying done, I absolutely must leave the house. I have been going to Starbucks, Borders, the park… anywhere that is not near my computer. And once I am there, I can finally concentrate and actually study. It is the same with reading. I cannot read at home. This is probably why I have been reading the same book for 9 months. (I am really really really ashamed to admit that.) Honestly, I can hardly watch TV in the presence of my computer… unless I am watching online episodes, which is pretty much the only TV I watch these days.

Wow. I need to just stop. I wish it was April 1st so that I could end this post by saying, “April Fools! Just kidding about all of that. I’m really not that pathetic.” But it’s not. It’s August 27th. And I am going to a Jack Johnson concert tonight. Far, far away from my computer. And I bet it will be 75 degrees and sunny.